Category: Program Highlights

Echoes August CD of the Month: Chris Bocast and MJCatalin’s Stratagem

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090729.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS American guitarist Chris Bocast teams with Romanian electronic artist MJCatalin in meeting of ambient and progressive music You can hear an audio version of this blog with Chris Bocast & MJCatalin’s music here. Chris Bocast was all set to be a rockin’ guitarist.  He played with rock…

Echoes Top 25 for June: Tosca on Top

Tosca‘s No Hassle leads the Echoes Top 25 for June. Check down to number 16 for next months Top 25 winner. That will be Moby and Wait for Me, one of the most beautifully heartbreaking albums of the year. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for July. A nice companion piece for Wait for…

Echo Location: Moby’s Wait for Me-July CD of the Month

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090701.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMoby releases his best album in a decade, and it’s the July Echoes CD of the Month It’s been ten years since Moby put out his multi-platinum selling album, Play. it became ubiquitous in films, TV, and commercials.   You’ll hear echoes of Play in Moby’s new album, Wait…

Echoes Top 25 for May: Leo Abrahams Tops List

Leo Abrahams‘ The Grape and the Grain tops Echoes Top 25 for May.  That’s no surprise since it was our Echoes CD of the Month. There’s lots of new electronic music including the latest albums from Bluetech, Mark Dwane, Jon Hopkins and the son of one of the original space music pioneers, Jerome Froese, who’s…

Echo Location: Mark Dwane’s Electronic Guitar

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090513.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMark Dwane travels to Other Worlds of guitar synthesis You can hear an audio version of this blog with Mark’s music here. Mark Dwane is a musician who has Progressive Rock in his DNA. Born in 1954, he was just the right age to be seduced by 70s…

Echoes Top 25 for April: Morgan Doctor leads the way

This months Echoes Top 25 sees the return of two longtime Echoes favorites, William Orbit and Mark Dwane.  There’s also a few surprises.  Who would’ve thought that two former Prince vamps,  guitarists for Spinal Tap and a Hot Tuna would be in the Echoes May Top 25.  But that’s the case with Wendy & Lisa’s…

Echo Location: Leo Abrahams May CD of the Month

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090429.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA Brian Eno accomplice looks to the pastoral past on The Grape and the Grain. You can hear an audio version of this blog with Leo Abrahams’ music here. Leo Abrahams is one of those musicians, you may not know, but you have heard him.  He’s performed with…

Echo Location Podcast-Michael Whelan & Atomic Skunk

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090422.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast of Echo Location with Michael Whelan and Atomic Skunk Listen Here. I usually create blogs out of Echo Location features, but this week I reversed direction and created an Echo Location out of the blog posting: Michael Whalen & Atomic Skunk: Free Music that Doesn’t Stink Follow link…

Synergy-Larry Fast Interview

A synthesizer pioneer reflects on his work with Peter Gabriel, Wendy Carlos and his own Synergy albums. Larry Fast was an early exponent of purely electronic and melodic space music.  His album, Realizations for Rock  Orchestra is still a favorite among electronic music fans.    He worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and…

Echoes March Top 25: David Darling Tops

David Darling Tops Echoes  Top 25 for March This year is already shaping up to be a diverse and unusual one with fantastic, innovative music coming from unlikely sources.   David Darling’s Prayer for Compassion topping the list, is of course, no surprise.  He was our Echoes CD of the Month for March and he’s been…